The seven keys to the fight between Kirchnerism and prepaid companies for the reform of the health system

Annabella quiroga

06/16/2021 3:24 PM

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Updated 06/16/2021 3:24 PM

The relationship between the Government and private health companies has risen in recent days.

This occurred after

the onslaught that Kirchnerism took up to

 reform the system, while prepaid companies go to court to be authorized to increase fees.

These are the seven keys that define the confrontation:

Cristina's onslaught

Last Monday, Vice President Cristina Kirchner resumed the burden on private health that had begun six months ago.

He criticized the performance they have been taking in the pandemic by saying that "prepaid women do not know where to place people" and end up going "to the public."

In this framework, he raised the need to "

go to an integrated system

between the three subsystems: public, social works and private or prepaid."

Yesterday, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti referred to the issue by saying: "We want to reduce fragmentation (of the health system) and work so

that everything is part of the Superintendency

and work closely with all sectors."

The plan of La Cámpora

After Cristina's words, a paper from La Cámpora was circulated to integrate the different health subsystems.

President Alberto Fernández had tried in January to

lower the tone of the issue

by ensuring that no progress would be made on the private system, but in the last 48 hours the "paper" gained momentum.

There, it is also proposed to

set up a national joint health system

, change the system of transfer of social works and establish massive purchases of drugs by state agencies to lower costs, in addition to promoting that the State manufacture key drugs, such as misoprostol, which it is used for the voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Recovery of benefits

One of the points raised by the La Cámpora paper is to advance in the articulation between the public and the private.

It is mentioned that "the public subsector

will obtain remuneration for the services rendered

(to social and private works) ... with average discounts of up to 33% of market values ​​(...) in exchange for a system of automatic billing billings. "

The wrestling for quotas

Since 2012, the Government regulates increases in the fees of health companies.

And when inflation escalates, slow these rises to

take fuel from the index.

Prepaid companies have been demanding that they be authorized a greater increase.

This year there was

a rise of 4.5% in April and another of 5.5% in May

.

But from the industry they argue that the costs increased much more than fees that would be

needed at the least an upgrade of 35% to close the phase shift.

The judicial presentation

In the absence of responses, the Argentine Health Union, chaired by Claudio Belocopitt,

appeared today in court

with an injunction to obtain the authorization of the increase in quotas.

The premise demands an injunction autonomous "which includes an increase of 9.77% over the current value of authorized shares" would be done in two tranches. 

The fear of intervention

On Tuesday, the Argentine Health Union held a press conference to announce that it would go to court on the issue of quotas.

However, the central theme of the speech by its president, Claudio Belocopitt, was the fear that the government would seek to nationalize companies, something that could happen "

in fact or in fact."

The argument was that progress could be made on the private sector through a law, as happened with the AFJPs, or with a strategy that first seeks to "defund the health system, put it at the limit of its operational capacity and keep it that way until it collapses." , which would give "

the perfect excuse to nationalize it."

The expansion of the PMO

Prepaid companies protest not only about the issue of fees but also because their costs rise above inflation.

They assure that since 2012, the quotas increased 1054%;

the cost of living, 1,450% and

health costs, 1950%.

One of the reasons for this escalation is that year after year the Congress includes within the Compulsory Medical Plan (PMO) pathologies and treatments that are very expensive and the prepaid ones argue that they cannot solve.

Question that these decisions are made

without defining where will the funding for these new features.

And demanding a solution to this issue.

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